Re: Blessed Rain!

Much of ours probably ran off, too, but as we are on a slope, and the  
perennial beds and vegetables are downhill, maybe they benefitted...  
total was 1.35 inches in my rain gauge.

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Aug 4, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Donna wrote:

> We got some rain this morning, hard hitting storm, lightening,  
> thunder, not
> very good for the plants or ground as it all ran off.
>
> Been watering all week, but don't think I am winning the battle here.
>
> Donna
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf Of Cathy Carpenter
>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:53 PM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: [CHAT] Blessed Rain!
>>
>> Has been raining here for the past 30+ minutes. Probably coming down
>> too hard to do anything but run off, but at this point, I'll take
>> anything.  Will let you know what the rain gauge says tomorrow. (This
>> morning the drought in the midwest made the front page of the Wall
>> Street Journal.) At least I will probably get a one week respite from
>> hose hauling!
>>
>>
>> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>>
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